As part of the 2025-2026 series of Storytelling Workshops, we present:

Oral storytelling as playful pedagogy - Alastair K Daniel

About the workshop

Classroom oral storytelling is a social activity between teller and listener(s) that, in a playful and supportive context, can provide learners with opportunities to shape and reshape their own tales, drawing on (and developing) their own understandings of the world as they do so. Exploiting the characteristics of play in this way, learners connect with others and explore shared histories, attitudes and values. In this workshop, having distinguished oral storytelling from other spoken word practices, participants will engage in supportive and playful activities that emphasise oral storytelling as a process of meaning-making.

About Alastair

Dr Alastair K Daniel is a performance storyteller and artist educator. As well as being a storyteller himself, Alastair teaches (and is published in) storytelling and its application in educational contexts. As a former classroom teacher and university-based teacher educator, Alastair often focuses on storytelling as pedagogy.